August 2010

'That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me.

But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one day struck out of it and think

how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this,

and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns

or flowers, that never would have bound you, but for the formation of the first link

on that memorable day.'

        Charles Dickens, Great Expectations